Was booker t washington a slave?

Booker T. Washington was born in April 1856, during a time when the United States of America was trying to work towards a solution dealing with slavery. Since the beginning, the colonies and most of the territories that became the United States had developed by agrarian economics utilizing slave labor. read more

Born a slave on a Virginia farm, Washington (1856-1915) rose to become one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the late 19th century. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute, a black school in Alabama devoted to training teachers. read more

Washington, Booker T; Harlan, Louis R; Blassingame, John W (1972), "(search link)", The Booker T Washington Papers, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-00242-3; fourteen-volume set of all letters to and from Booker T. Washington. read more